Metallic washtub.



No. 657,087. Patented sept. 4, |9oo s. s. co.

METALUC WSHTUB.

(Application filed .Aug 24:l 1899.)

No Modal.) I

(T11 mento@ wir n con an UNTTED dSTATES PATENT OEEICE.

SUMNER S. COBB, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO THE METALLIC BASKET COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

METALLIC WAS HTU B.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,087, dated September 4, 1900. Application filed August 24, 1899. Serial No. 728,302. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom may concern: corrugations are arranged horizontally; but Be it known that I, SUMNER S; COBB, a citithe horizontal arrangement is not essential. zen of the United States, residing at Roohes- The corrugated strips attached to the Wall of ter, in the county of Monroe and State of New the tub supplement its thickness, with the 5 York, have invented an Improvement in Meeect to increase the distance between the co- 55 tallic Washtubs, of which the following is a operatingbearing-faces of the clamps,where specification, reference being had to the acby the leverage of the wringer, acting transcompanyin g drawings. versely of the side wall of the tub,is decreased,

My invention relates to an improved said wall contiguous the corrugatedpieces beu ro wringer attachment for metallic washtubs, ing also thereby stienedl This avoids the 6.o which improvement is fully described and evil of buckling or bending of the thin sheetillustrated in the following specification and metal wall of the tub, as when the clamps are the accompanying drawings, the novel feaapplied directly thereto and bite or clamp it tures thereof being specified in the claim anclosely.

i5 nexed to the said specification. As sheet metal is used for the attachment, 65

In the accompanying drawings, representit is cheap and light and adds but little to ing my invention, Figure lis a side elevation the cost or weight of the tub. The attachof a metallic washtub with my improved ment becomes apart of the tub itself, so that wringer attachment. Fig. 2 is a plan View it is always ready foi-use. Itis impossible to 2o of the same. Figs. 3, 4, and 5 represent the detach it, and it will last as long as the tub. 7o attachment on a larger scale. Figs. 6 and 7 The galvanizing prevents the entrance of the represent modifications. soapy water between the plates and body.

In themanufacture of myimproved wringer The rounding or folding in of the corners of attachment I take a strip B of suitable sheet the ribs obviates any sharp projections and 2 5 metal and corrugate and divide it to produce so prevents damage to any clothes which may 75 plates A, having ribs C or the like of suitable come in contact with the attachment. shape and dimensions, and I attach two of In the modification shown in Fig. 6 the such plates to the outside of the washtub D, bosses J or project-ions of other shapes are near its upper edge, at a distance apart which pressed into the metal, so as to virtually in- 30 corresponds with the clamps of the wringer. crease the thickness of the metal and adapt 8o The flan ges or corrugations project outward it, in coperation with the tub-wall proper, to from the body of the tub and provide addihold the clamping-screws and wringer in the tional thickness to its wall at points designed same way as do the ribs or corrugations. for the attachment of wringer -supporting These projections may be of any suitable di- 35 clamps, whereby the leverage of the wringer men'sions, form, or arrangement, provided 85 and its supporting clamp members is diminthey are sufficiently numerous and close toished. The plates are secured to the tub by gether to support the contiguous clamp-faces rivets E or other suitable devices, or they at a distance from the tub-wall when the may be secured by soldering or by galvanizclamps are in operation, and they should have 4o ing the whole structure either with or withsufficient strength and rigidity to prevent col- 9o out the rivets. The ends of the corrugations lapse under the pressure of the clamps or levmay be left square, as indicated at F, Fig. 3, erage of the wringer. Preferably the plates or they may be beveled or rounded, as at II, will be situated contiguous the tub-top and or the corners may be folded down sidewise, between it and horizontal ribsin the tub-wall,

45 as shown at I, Eig. 5. The inner sides of the as indicated in Fig. 1. l95 corrugations may be in contact, or they may The manner of using my improvement will be formed with an interval between them, as be understood froln Fig. l, in which the indicated in Fig. 4, which is a section on the wringer is shown attached to the tub, its line 4 4, Fig. 5. clamping-screws bearing against the thick- 5o In a modification represented in Fig. the ening-plates of the wringer attachment. roo

It will be understood that I do not claim,4 attachment comprising metal plates lixed i0 broadly, a thick Washtub-Wall, but the parthe tub, said plates being thickened by transticular attachment formed and applied to a verse projections formed in the metal.

thin-Walled Washtub, as and for the purpose SUMNER S. COBB. 5 set forth. Vitnesses:

I claim- GEO. B. SELDEN, In combination with a Washtub, a Wringer C. G. CRANNELL. 

